COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data.

ABSTRACT: Globally, soils store two to three times as much carbon as currently resides in the atmosphere, and it is critical to understand how soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and uptake will respond to ongoing climate change. In particular, the soil-to-atmosphere CO₂ flux, commonly though imprecisely termed soil respiration (R_S ), is one of the largest carbon fluxes in the Earth system. An increasing number of high-frequency R_S measurements (typically, from an automated system with hourly sampling) have been made over the last two decades; an increasing number of methane measurements are being made with such systems as well. Such high frequency data are an invaluable resource for understanding GHG fluxes, but lack a central database or repository. Here we describ

SUBMITTER: Bond-Lamberty B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7756728 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature